The wars of the Eternal City and the consequent changes in the political situation on the continent may have written a strong mark on history, becoming the object of recitation and curse by countless middle school students and history students in later generations, but for Anna, who still lives in the compound of the deep house...... Anna did not know what had changed in the outside world, for the backyard was a haven of calm and seclusion for women, and it was said that no storm from the outside world could hurt the fortunate women of the place, who were provided for and protected by men, so they had to know neither war nor anything else, but only three things were enough - children, housework, and truth, which was proof of their great superiority over the women of Newstria and other pagan places.

At least, the divine, unquestionable, irrefutable truth is what it proclaims.

And the facts...... The truth is that Anna has not known what is calm since she arrived, and lately her situation has become worse with her bulging belly, and the chief wife and the new wife have each sent a maid to watch over her and prevent her from "stealing" - for a woman who cannot "feed herself", no matter how much work she does from morning till night, stealing food is a crime serious enough to make her abandoned, and stealing means that she has stolen what belongs to her master (even if it is the result of her labor, But she had no property rights and therefore belonged to her master, and the young girl did not receive any additional nourishment or rest because of her growing belly, but added a great deal of extra work, and here no woman dared to show that she was a "waste" who could not work during childbirth, and that all of them had to work for the "master" until the labor pains of childbirth came.

When the "master" arrives home. Her situation has plummeted, and the women in the house are whispering. Even Anna had heard that "this time is a test given by the truth", no. Even if she hadn't heard of it, the fact that the rooms that had been cleaned out to house the new slaves were not inhabited by the return of the "master" was enough to make her vigilant, but, alas, it was useless to be vigilant.

Even the bulging belly of the new chief wife could not save her from the beating of her frustrated husband, so what shelter could the pregnant state of a little slave bring? When the "master" and his sons and cronies were cursing the treacherous and disrespectful pagans who did not obediently give away their wives and daughters and their fragile necks. After scolding vigorously, he drank a few more refreshing fermented drinks, and remembered that there was a "Neustrian pagan princess" in his backyard, so he ordered his servants to bring her, so that this "princess" could have the prestige of believing in the truth.

Before Anna had even been brought to the feast, she fainted in pain—from overwork, with no food, at an age that was not suitable for pregnancy, from the fierce house fights, and with the fear of the "master"—she had been born prematurely.

Some Native Americans who lived in the Stone Age believed that a woman should give birth entirely on her own, and that if she did not survive childbirth, it meant that she was too "squeamish". deserves the death of both mother and child, what midwife, there is no need at all! And many men in the 21st century who consider themselves "rational and not bad for women" have the same brilliant ideas as these Stone Age Indians, they think. The yellow woman with the narrowest pelvis and the largest baby head can achieve the maternal and infant survival rate in a modern hospital without relying on anyone and medical means, as long as she is "not squeamish". When they happily invoke "country women who are not squeamish, who give birth in their own homes and do not need to see a doctor" to teach those "squeamish women", they have probably never seen a time when they are sent to the countryside. The tragic situation of country women who queued up to seek medical attention, who had given birth in their own homes, and who were therefore not given the necessary help at the time of delivery, such as lateral resection.

Someone has received such a case.

Anyone who has had surgery knows it. Local anesthesia is only a pain reliever, and people are still aware of poking around, so, "Doctor! Haven't I been sewn up yet? ”

"This torn ...... down there, Where am I stitching, I'm doing a puzzle! ”

There are also "not squeamish" women who "never see a doctor" when they come to the free outpatient clinic, and they are found that the urinary tract and birth canal have grown together due to multiple births, tears and adhesions...... Chinese women living in the 21st century still have such an experience, then, the lucky Anna in the medieval environment, and met such a cold and domineering "master", naturally there is no "squeamish" environment, she must rely on herself to survive.

Fortunately, the believers in the truth were a little more civilized in this respect than the Stone Age Indians, and they had a midwife in their homes, and even more fortunately, this midwife was a slave brought by the divorced former chief wife, so she did not contribute to the current wives' house fights, that is, she did not kill Anna and her children in the birthing bed - Anna was so lucky! If the midwife's bloodstained knife did not have tetanus germs on it, she would have been even more fortunate - before the transformation of the old midwifery after liberation, the number of deaths in a week of 2,696 children born in one area was recorded, that is, more than a third of the babies would die within a few days of birth, and the ignorant midwives also believed that the more the knife was stained with the mother's blood, the better the safety of the mother and baby, so they never washed their knives - The crossing girls who dare not to reform the old-fashioned midwife under such conditions, but are busy vowing to "give birth to a litter", are all real warriors!

Premature, regarded as a thorn in the side of the house bucket brick family wives of Anna's harsh treatment, at this time also played an unexpected role, in the matter of childbirth to help the lucky Anna, because there is no nutrition during pregnancy, and frightened by the house fight, and premature birth, Anna's child's physique is far below the standard, very thin, which makes her use the young, in fact, still a child's body to give birth a little smoother, of course, but only "smooth" a little, She still taught from the head to the end the pain of being kicked by a man, and unlike men, her pain did not receive any sympathy and pity.

Those honorable wives and concubines were nervously calculating, would the lucky Kalia "win a man in one fell swoop" this time? Of course, even if she gave birth to a son, this son must be recognized by the "master" in order to be exempted from the status of a slave, and his mother will be promoted to the status of a "concubine", and there is still an unfathomable gap between "concubine" and "wife", unlike the number of concubines who can be as many as the stars, the number of enviable positions of "wife" is limited, if Kalia had this ambition, it would mean many terrible house fights, and the loser could be put to death, or abandoned, and live a life of widowhood - then, Will she climb to the position of "chief wife"? Oh, how can a "new convert" from a humble background, without the protection of his father and brother, reach such a high position, even if he has many powerful sons?

However, this did not make the "chief wife" feel at ease, she touched her bulging belly and the new scars on her face, and swore to her noble ancestors who were good at house fighting, and would never let go of this shameless maid who dared to seduce the lord to improve her status and challenge her! After imagining how she would please the "master" if she could cross over and be reborn, and how she would torture and kill the shameless Kalia who pushed the master, and the five horses split the corpse, etc., she stroked the child in her belly and the new wound on her face, and then went to make her newly learned sobering soup for the master - after analyzing it with her knowledge of house fighting, she felt that her new cooking skills were likely to please the "master", so as to temporarily maintain the noble status of her chief wife, which was very worth learning and doing.

And for those men who are drinking freely, and because of the sudden birth of Kalia, they cannot reach the majesty of the believers of truth in her, the pain of childbirth is not worth mentioning, they are convinced that women give birth to children as easily as they breathe, but no, these men drink and brag, and the child is born, without any trouble! Not painful at all! It's worth a litter and a litter!

Finally, as the baby croaked to the ground, the masked midwife came to report the result of the premature birth with her hands covered in blood.

"What did she give birth to?" The half-drunk "master" asked, this was the only concern he had in this matter, and the only concern of the other women in the house, "Have you given birth to a great warrior who is brave and fearless and can kill all the infidels for the truth?" ”

"Honorable sir, she's a 'trash'!" The midwife said with disdain, as a woman of the master, she is so useless, not adding a brave warrior to the "master", but adding a "garbage" who will not make money and can only rely on men to support, it is really a loss of all the women in the backyard, no, it is a loss of all the women in the world, including her face as a midwife! Giving birth to a "trash", how embarrassed is she! Ah, these pagan women, though converted to the truth, are so useless that they do not give birth to a great warrior who inherits his father's brave bloodline and talents, but only a "rubbish" who has no knowledge, no understanding of the truth, nothing but housework, and children! It's more "garbage" than "garbage"!

Kalia did not give birth to a brave warrior like his father, and the "master" did not mention this humiliating thing to him, and his sons and cronies naturally did not mention it again to disgrace their master—no one mentioned it again, except for the lucky one who survived the birth that had not yet reached her home, and that was why she did not know the sex of her child: "What about my child? Where is my child? I heard him cry! (To be continued......)